FRIDAY 30th SEPTEMBER
9:30am: Opening Remarks
9:40am: Keynote lecture
Pr Graham Dutfield (School of Law, University of Leeds), “Farmers, Innovation, and Intellectual Property: Current Trends and their Consequences for Food Security”
10:30am: Session 1. Moving Beyond the Absolute “Right to Exclude” – Towards an “Inclusive” Approach of Ownership
1.1. Access and Benefit-Sharing
Dr Elsa Tsioumani (ERC Research Fellow, Strathclyde University), “Beyond access and benefit-sharing: lessons from the emergence and application of the principle of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in agrobiodiversity governance”
Dr Frédéric Thomas (IRD), “Patent and benefit sharing. What can we learn from SkE lawsuit? What is the problem?”
11:30am: Coffee/Tea Break
12:00: 1.2. Access and Licensing
Dr Eric Deibel, “Open source seeds and beyond: rethinking the commons in a global bio-economy”
Dr Johannes Kotschi (AGRECOL), “Open-Source for Seeds”
1:00pm: Lunch Break
2:00pm: Session 2. Dealing with the Commons: Moving beyond Public and Private Ownership?
2.1. Working Out the Theoretical Frameworks
Chair: Dr Sarah E. Edwards FLS (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew & UCL School of Pharmacy)
Dr Laura Rival (Oxford University), “The anthropological perspective: authorship and the dialectics of community and market”
Dr Catherine Darbo-Peschanski (CNRS – LAS), Common, communities between Nature, Political Groups and Human Body : Places and Territories issues in the Ancient Greek world
3:00pm: Tea Break
3:30pm: Dr Michele Spanò (University of Turin – EHESS), “Private Law Arrangements for the Commons: A New Comparative Perspective”
Dr Fabien Girard (Grenoble Alpes University – MFO), “Composing the Common World of the Bio-Commons in the Age of the Anthropocene: Some Preliminary Observations”
4:30pm: 2.2. Of Some Possible Models: Mapping and Protecting the Bio-Commons
2.2.1. Understanding the Bio-Commons
Chair: Dr Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk (MFO)
Dr Victoria Reyes-García (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain), “Traditional Knowledge of Plant Genetic Resources”
Dr Eric Garine Wichatitsky (Paris Ouest), “Which scale to understand landrace concepts and seed fluxes in subsistence/peasant societies? Snapshots from the tropics”
Dr Elise Demeulenaere (CNRS, National Museum of Natural History) “Contemporary Ostromian seed commons? On the emergence and formalization of an organization acting for farmers’ re-appropriation of seeds (Réseau Semences Paysannes, France)”
6:00pm: End of the first day
SATURDAY 1st OCTOBER
10:00am: 2.2.2. A Common Property Regime for the Bio-Commons?
Chair: Dr Fabien Girard (MFO, Université Grenoble Alpes)
Dr Geoffroy Filloche (UMR GRED – IRD), “Making the difference with a common plant: the recovery of guarana by the Sateré-Mawé (Brazil)”
Barbara Pick (London School of Economics), “The use of geographical indications to preserve the Commons – a more complex picture emerging from case studies”
Dr Susette Biber-Klemm (University of Basel), “The bio-commons in an industrialized country – a viable option?”
11:45am: Tea Break
12:30: 2.2.3. Governing the Bio-Commons
Chair: Dr Laura Rival (Oxford University)
Christine Frison (UCLouvain, KU Leuven) “Planting the Commons: Towards redesigning an equitable seed exchange”
Dr Selim Louafi (Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow Cirad, Montpellier, France), “Heterogeneities and equity challenges in governing global commons: the example of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources”
1:30pm: Lunch
